History of Denver New Docent Class Historic Denver Walking Tours JOE Sokolowski 1/2019
Map from Historic Tours, Denver Part 1, David Eitemiller, map by Francis Pierson This is a picture of the boundaries of St. Charles.
DENVER: September 24, 1858 Charles Nichols laid claims to St. Charles town, named after himself. October 30, 1858 A meeting of settlers gather to establish a town to be called Auraria. November 1, 1858 Constitution of Auraria Town Company was adopted. November 6, 1858 Organization of Auraria Town Company. November 17, 1858 Larimer claims the land for Denver City. In effect jumping Nichol’s claim. November 22, 1858 Denver City adopts a Constitution. Denver City established. December 14, 1858 Highlands was plotted by General Larimer.
General Larimer’s Denver claim included more than half of the St. Charles Claim. Charles Nichols had a valid claim in writing from the Kansas Territorial Governor who was promised land for his son in the deal. General Larimer had William McGaa swear the land was abandoned, avoiding a serious accusation of claim jumping. One of Larimer’s men followed Nichols home and threatened him with a rope. He compromised a merger with Larimer. Each St. Charles town member was given $250.00 and shares in the Denver Town Company.
Fortune hunters 100,000-150,000 Go-backers 35,000-50,000 Photo from Internet
William Byers publishes the first issue of the Rocky Mountain News April 23, 1859 Rocky Mountain News Headline Book
On May 7th, 1859 two coaches from the Leavenworth and Pikes Peak Express Company arrived after 119 days and 687 miles from Leavenworth, Kansas Territory. Photo from Internet
Auraria and Denver City merge into Denver in response to Golden’s growth. April 5, 1860 Internet Photo
Colorado Territory is established November 7, 1861
Denver City catches fire, 4-19-1863 70 buildings burn, mostly on Blake and Market Streets
Locust Plague June 1, 1863
Cherry Creek Flood May 19, 1864 Photo: George Wakely
Sand Creek Massacre November 29, 1864 Internet Photo
Smith’s Ditch begins to flow, 1867 Author’s Photo
Railroads: First attempts to finance, 1867: Denver Pacific Railway & Telegraph Company Ground broken 5/18/1868 First rail connections: Photo from Denver Westerners ROUNDUP, Charles B. Roth PM, How Denver Got Its First Railroad, 2/1968 Fred & Jo Mazzulla Collection from Cheyenne 6/24/1870 from Kansas- 8/1870
City Hall 1874 Tabor Block 1880 First House on Capitol Hill 1881 Tabor Opera House, Denver 1881 Union Station 1882 Molly Brown House 1889 Oxford Hotel 1891 Brown Palace Hotel 1892 Colorado Capitol Opened 1894 Boettcher House 1908 Daniels & Fisher Tower 1911 Internet photo Pioneer Fountain 1912 Stapleton Field 1929 City and County Building 1932
Coinage Act 1873 Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890, purchased 4.5 million ounces of silver a month Internet Photo Sherman Act repealed 1893
Consumption increases immigration to Colorado Famous Tuberculous Patients: Robert Speer Golda Meir Robert Frost Doc Holladay Baron von Richtofen Edwin “Big Ed” Johnson Temple Hayne Buell Helen Hunt Jackson Internet Photo Cure found in the 1940’s, a combination of two drugs
Sugar Beet Industry Both photos, Internet
Denver’s Automobile Companies: Fritchle Electric Car Internet Photos Colburn Roadster Gates Rubber Ford Assembly Plant
Colorado was dry four years before the nation. Colorado Prohibition: January 1, 1916 to September 12,1933 Internet Photo National Prohibition Starts: January 17, 1920
World Wide Flu Epidemic, 1918 Denver’s most well known victim, Mayor Robert Speer Internet Photo
Denver’s Boom and Bust Cycles: Great Depression of 1929 Phipps Mansion City and County Building Panning for gold in Cherry Creek Internet Photo Authors Photo
World War II Denver Federal Center Remington Arms Plant Federal Government looks West. Google Photo
Denver Urban Renewal Authority: The Future Mis-Judged Internet Photo
1882 Millionaires Row starts to move to Capitol Hill 1893 Silver Crash, Housing sizes decreases 1910’s Changes in Domestic Help: war, factories, immigration 1920’s The rise of apartment buildings 1929 Economic Depression 1930’s Mansions are subdivided and rented out 1940’s - 1950’s Need for post war housing 1950’ - 1960’s Urban Renewal, buildings rebuilt taller 1967 Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission 1970 Historic Denver 1970’s Halfway Houses established 1996 Pennsylvania Street Historic District 2000’s Gentrification of Capitol Hill
Sources DenverHistory.Blog
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